Dance Together Festival: Call for Volunteers!
Calling all dance enthusiasts! 💃🕺 We need your help to make the Dance Together Festival York Region flow smoothly! 🎉 Think you can handle set-up and tear-down? 🤔 Or maybe you’re a pro at check-in and out? 💁♂️💁♀️ How about running errands or being an awesome artist liaison? 🏃♀️🎨 We’re looking for volunteers to join […]
Call for Artists: Vaughan Culture Days 2024
Culture Days is a national celebration of arts, culture and heritage, taking place place from September 20 to October 13, 2024. in 2023, The City of Vaughan was selected as a Festival Hub for ON Culture Days. This was a unique opportunity to continue celebrating culture with all residents in Vaughan. Highlights from Vaughan Culture Days […]
First Ever BWG Artist in Residence Program Announced!
The Bradford West Gwillimbury Library has announced the FIRST BWG Artist in Residence Program! This program provides one artist or one collective of artists with the opportunity and funds up to $3,000 to develop new work that will animate the BWG Library and Cultural Centre. It is open to artists of all disciplines and folks […]
ENVIRONMENTS Exhibition Opening Soon!
Curated by Christos Damianos, ENVIRONMENTS is an art exhibition showcasing the work and vision of 12 York Region visual artists on the theme of environment and the Greenbelt. This group exhibition will be held at the Boynton House Art Space purposely selected for this group show by the curator because of its location and historical status. The featured artists include: Paul Harpley, Kate Greenway, Hyeon Ju Lee, […]
Dance Together Opening @ Assembly Park
Dance Together Season 2024 @ Assembly Park Following the success of our 2023 Dance Together Festival York Region, which won the nomination of Best In-Person Programming with Ontario Culture Days, we are partnering with Assembly Park and York Region Arts Council to offer ongoing indoor programming during Winter and Spring 2024 at the spacious and wheelchair accessible Assembly Park Studios in Vaughan! We […]
McMichael launches exhibit dedicated to works by Meryl McMaster
Photographer Meryl McMaster is the subject of an exhibit at the McMichael Art Collection in Kleinburg. McMaster’s large format images are definitely worth the drive. The McMichael Art Collection presents a survey exhibition of Meryl McMaster, a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch and British ancestry. This […]
Vaughan Winterfest 2023 features live entertainment and loads more
Live entertainment is just one of the many attractions that will be available for folks to enjoy this Sunday, February 5 when Vaughan welcomes back Winterfest 2023. Winterfest in Vaughan is back in-person this year! On Sun, Feb 5 from 10:00am to 3:30pm at Vellore Village Community Centre, folks are invited to join in the […]
Africville Stories and Cirque Kalabante coming to Richmond Hill
Africville Stories Wednesday February 15, 2023 – 8:00PM This is the story of Canada’s oldest black community, Africville, which was destroyed for ’urban improvement’ in the 1960s. Within the tragedy of this event comes stories of the people of this community shared through music. Based on Joe Sealy’s Juno winning jazz recording, Africville Suite, Africville […]
Flag raising and gala event kick off Black History Month in Aurora
To celebrate Black History Month, Aurora is hosting a number of events throughout the month, including the Black History Gala on February 3, featuring keynote speaker, the Honourable Jean Augustine, above. Pan-African flag raising February 1, 6:30 p.m, Aurora Town Hall Join the Town of Aurora and ABC on February 1st for the Pan-African flag […]
Newmarket kicks off Black History Month with flag-raising ceremony
To celebrate Black History Month, there are a variety of activities throughout York Region, beginning today, when the Newmarket African Caribbean Canadian Association and the Town of Newmarket honour the Decade with a Flag Raising Ceremony. Experienceyorkregion.com will be featuring Black History Month events throughout the month. If you or your organization has an event, […]